Individual Units of Work

For secondary English teachers

These will save you a lot of time. All the planning has been done for you to get on with teaching students.

PLEASE NOTE: The individual units of work do not include access to the work ebooks or workbooks. You need to purchase these separately. However the annual subscription does provide access to the work ebooks.

What are they about?

Each Qwiller individual unit of work contains a downloadable outline of the unit and scope and sequence, including an assessment task and differentiated activities catering for numerous student learning styles and needs. Teachers can also purchase the corresponding English work ebooks aligned with each unit of work. The work ebooks are the resources you can use with your class. Click here for more information about English work ebooks.

The teaching and learning sequences in our individual units of work provide the activities for students to learn about a particular concept and develop their skills in creating an assessment task.

Our individual units of work will guide your teaching and help your students to develop the knowledge and skills to be able to create a quality assessment task.

These units of work are for individual teacher use only. The same copyright laws apply as for printed books. If you wish for all teachers in the English faculty to use these units of work, consider a Secondary English Units of Work Subscription.Click here for more information.

Senior School

Year 9

Who are they for?

The individual units of work are for English teachers who teach English curriculums around the world. The proposed student age group for each individual unit of work is indicated on the information page for each unit of work.

All individual units of work are aligned with the Australian English Curriculum and the NSW English Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
However, the units of work can still be used by teachers referring to different English curriculums around the world. Contact Qwiller to discuss how we can adapt the units of work to suit your needs. Click here to contact Qwiller.

How have they been developed?

Firstly we decide on the concept and key questions, unit focus, assessment task, outcomes (for NSW only) and curriculum content descriptions. We also consider cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities. Then we backward map by creating the scope and sequence, including teaching and learning strategies.

AtQwiller we consistently research innovative teaching strategies appropriate for teaching English to secondary students.

What's the content of each individual unit of work?

Activities that integrate the three strands – literature, language and literacy

Suggested teaching and learning strategies that explicitly develop knowledge and skills relevant to the concept and assessment task

Suggested differentiated activities, including the assessment task, for gifted and talented students and students with specific learning needs

Word banks and vocabulary activities

Development of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and creating skills embedded in teaching and learning sequence

Language and Literacy activities about spelling, punctuation and/or grammar related to the particular concept and assessment task are integrated into the teaching and learning sequence where appropriate and relevant to context.

What’s the copyright?

All of our units of work are under copyright – they are for individual classroom use only, unless a Secondary English Units of Work subscription has been purchased.

Please respect the intellectual property of writers and direct other teachers and Heads of Departments to the website for them to purchase their own individual classroom copy or a subscription if appropriate. Click here for more information about Secondary English Units of Work Subscription. Click here for more information about the Terms of Use of this website.

What’s the site license?

If you are a teacher and you want to use these units of work with more than one faculty member and more than 30 students in the year group, a site license is available. Purchasing a Secondary English Unit of Work subscription provides the site licence for faculty use. Click here to find out more about a subscription. Contact Qwiller to find out more.Click here to contact Qwiller.